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21 N.Y.2d 990

Simpson v. Loehmann

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 11, 1968

New York Court of Appeals · decided 1968-04-11

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““This, it is hardly necessary to add, means that there may not be any recovery against the defendant in this sort of case in an amount greater than the face value of such insurance policy even though he proceeds with the defense on the merits. Consideration of CPLR 320 (subd. [c]) and its effect in other types of action begun by attachment must, of coilrse, await future cases.” 290 N.Y.S. 2d at 916 , 238 N.E.2d at 320 .”

quoted by 3 later decisions, including 290 F. Supp. 998 - Jarvik v. MAGIC MOUNTAIN CORPORATION, Greyhound Corporation v. Heitner

“expand the basis for in persona jurisdiction in view of the fact that the recovery is necessarily limited to the value of the asset attached, that is, the liability insurance policy.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Minichiello v. Rosenberg

Relies on Matter of United States of Mexico v. Schmuck · Mississippi Shipbuilding Corporation v. . Lever Bros. Co.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1968-04-11

How this case has been cited

Cited by 95 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987 · most notably Rush v. Savchuk (1980), Minichiello v. Rosenberg (1968)

23 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions

570196819701980decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Motion for reargument denied in the following memorandum: A motion for reargument is not an appropriate vehicle for raising new questions, such as those now urged upon us, which were not previously advanced either in this court or in the courts below. (See, e.g., Mississippi Shipbuilding Corp. v. Lever Bros. Co., 237 N. Y. 565; Matter of United States of Mexico v. Schmuck, 293 N. Y. 768; see, also, Cohen and Karger, Powers of the New York Court of Appeals, pp. 628, 69A-696.) Indeed, the appellant now suggests a meaning and interpretation of the insurance policy (the subject of the attachment) which is inconsistent with that subscribed to and acquiesced in by him on the appeal proper and on which the case has heretofore been considered and decided. It would serve no useful purpose for us to entertain at this juncture arguments addressed to details relating to the coverage or noncoverage of that policy of insurance now pressed upon us for the first time.

¶2Further, the appellant’s argument based on the impact of CPLR 320 (subd. [c]), also asserted for the first time, fails to take account of the explicit statement in the court’s opinion (21 N Y 2d 305, 310) that “ neither the Seider decision [17 N Y 2d 111] nor the present one purports to expand the basis for in personam jurisdiction in view of the fact that the recovery is *991necessarily limited to the value of the asset attached, that is, the liability insurance policy. For the purpose of pending litigation, which looks to an ultimate judgment and recovery, such value is its face amount and not some abstract or hypothetical value.” This, it is hardly necessary to add, means that there may not be any recovery against the defendant in this sort of case in an amount greater than the face value of such insurance policy even though he proceeds with the defense on the merits. Consideration of CPLR 320 (subd. [c]) and its effect in other types of action begun by attachment must, of course, await future cases.

¶3Motion for reargument and for a stay denied in a memorandum.

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